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Cord :: Cord (n.) A string, or small rope, composed of several strands twisted together..

Strike :: Strike (v. i.) To run upon a rock or bank; to be stranded; as, the ship struck in the night..

Braid :: Braid (n.) A plait, band, or narrow fabric formed by intertwining or weaving together different strands..

Strand :: Strand (v. t.) To drive on a strand; hence, to run aground; as, to strand a ship..

Beached :: Beached (p. p. & a.) Driven on a beach; stranded; drawn up on a beach; as, the ship is beached..

Masoola Boat :: Masoola boat () A kind of boat used on the coast of Madras, India. The planks are sewed together with strands of coir which cross over a wadding of the same material, so that the shock on taking the beach through surf is much reduced..

Strong :: Strond (n.) Strand; beach.

Stranded :: Strand (n.) The shore, especially the beach of a sea, ocean, or large lake; rarely, the margin of a navigable river..

Stranding :: Stranded (imp. & p. p.) of Stran.

Strand :: Strand (v. t.) To break a strand of (a rope).

Sliver :: Sliver (n.) A strand, or slender roll, of cotton or other fiber in a loose, untwisted state, produced by a carding machine and ready for the roving or slubbing which preceeds spinning..

Quilting :: Quilting (n.) A coating of strands of rope for a water vessel.

Lay :: Lay (v. t.) To put the strands of (a rope, a cable, etc.) in their proper places and twist or unite them; as, to lay a cable or rope..

Twine :: Twine (n.) A strong thread composed of two or three smaller threads or strands twisted together, and used for various purposes, as for binding small parcels, making nets, and the like; a small cord or string..

Astrand :: Astrand (adv. & a.) Stranded.

Organzine :: Organzine (n.) A kind of double thrown silk of very fine texture, that is, silk twisted like a rope with different strands, so as to increase its strength..

Strand :: Strand (n.) One of the twists, or strings, as of fibers, wires, etc., of which a rope is composed..

Grist :: Grist (n.) In rope making, a given size of rope, common grist being a rope three inches in circumference, with twenty yarns in each of the three strands..

Strand :: Stranding (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Stran.

Contline :: Contline (n.) The space between the strands on the outside of a rope.

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